Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0211301702160.15863-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2002-11-30T17:03:28Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: pch as single character
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20021130162701.031d5130@mail.gvdnet.dk>
You want to mark a point with a character string `12'? Use plot(type="n")
followed by text.
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Troels Ring wrote:
> Dear friends - using windows xp and R1.6.1
> when doing
> x <- 12
> as.character(x)
> [1] "12"
> plot(1,2,pch=as.character(x))
> the interesting point is marked with: 1 whereas I would like to see 12.
> In par() is specified under pch:
> Either an integer specifying a symbol or a single character to be used as
> the default in plotting points
> How is that overridden ?
>
> Best wishes
> Troels
>
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